Sentences with phrase «methane digester in»

Could we get people to install methane digesters in their backyards?

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In addition, 34 percent of Grande Cheese's milk supply is produced with renewable power such as from methane digesters.

Innovation in our food system: methane digesters make electricity from cow manure.

That being said, what's the «methane digester» in the title?

The many additional sustainability programs that Albert Straus has implemented at the dairy and creamery include methane - digester technology to convert dairy waste into energy, an extensive water - reuse system and production of milk in reusable glass bottles.

The RAPTOR ™ process (or Rapid Transformation of Organic Residues) is a powerful anaerobic digestion process which in this application consists of a mechanical pretreatment of the organic residues (mainly the potato peels), thermophilic hydrolysis in a TAR (Thermophilic Acidogenic Reactor) followed by methane fermentation in a thermophilic digester of the ANAMIX ™ - T type.

The methane digester on the Straus Organic Dairy Farm captures methane in the digested manure from approximately 300 cows.

To put that into perspective, if two - thirds of California dairies added methane digesters to their manure management practices, the reduction in emissions would be the equivalent of taking about one million passenger vehicles off the road, according to Straus Family Creamery's calculations.

In the absence of oxygen inside a digester, bacteria break down the compounds in sewage to create gaseous methane, which can be used to power gas stoves or converted to electricitIn the absence of oxygen inside a digester, bacteria break down the compounds in sewage to create gaseous methane, which can be used to power gas stoves or converted to electricitin sewage to create gaseous methane, which can be used to power gas stoves or converted to electricity.

Also, methane produced in anaerobic biomass digesters is economically important as «one of the few proven, economical, large - scale bioenergy strategies» in use today, they say.

Methanosaeta were the dominant methane - producing microorganisms in the digesters and known to convert acetate to methane, but analysis of the gene expression in the digester revealed that Methanosaeta were also highly expressing genes for converting carbon dioxide to methane.

In Madagascar it is being used as a «toilet service» where the deposits are picked up and taken to an anaerobic digester to produce methane and clean fertilizer.

At the base of the Bay Bridge in Oakland, the district feeds a mix of sludge, commercial food scraps, and other organic waste into an array of 12 gigantic anaerobic digesters that produce methane, also called biogas.

While the greenhouse gas footprint of the production of other foods, compared to sources such as livestock, is highly dependent on a number of factors, production of livestock currently accounts for about 30 % of the U.S. total emissions of methane.316, 320,325,326 This amount of methane can be reduced somewhat by recovery methods such as the use of biogas digesters, but future changes in dietary practices, including those motivated by considerations other than climate change mitigation, could also have an effect on the amount of methane emitted to the atmosphere.327

With U.S. livestock and poultry production now concentrated in large facilities, the use of animal waste in anaerobic digesters to produce methane (natural gas) is catching on fast.

The digester expected to be operational at the Burrows Hall Farm by early this summer is the first in South Carolina, although Santee Cooper is already capturing methane from landfills to generate power.

Reduced food waste restricts available organic waste feedstocks, impacting composting, waste - to - energy, large - scale methane digesters and landfill methane capture in the Energy Sector.

Nestled in the foothills of the Cascades, the agricultural community near Enumclaw, Washington, has been organizing to build a methane digester for nearly a decade.

NativeEnergy helped install a methane digester on the Mains Dairy Farm in southern Pennsylvania.

There are 250 anaerobic digesters operating on livestock farms in the United States, helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from methane.

The methane digester on the Straus Organic Dairy Farm captures methane in the digested manure from approximately 300 cows.

State regulators want more farmers to reduce emissions with methane digesters, which capture methane from manure in large storage tanks and convert the gas into electricity.